Assistant Vice President, Site Reliability Engineer in London

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Responsible for driving the implementation of SRE methodologies within the CLS environment, collaborating closely with other infrastructure teams to optimize infrastructure and deployment processes, focusing on automation and operational excellence.

• Drives continuous improvement in system observability, alerting, and capacity planning through the definition and implementation of SLA, SLOs & SLIs.
• Define and enhance frameworks for Toil identification, analysis & remediation to identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring tasks and issues.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Ensure risks and stability issues in the cloud hosted environment are understood and addressed where possible through SRE best practices as part of any incident postmortems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Industry standard IT certification desired e.g. AWS / Terraform.
• Must have strong technical operational support experience within an infrastructure services team performing on-call duties such as handling tickets, owning incidents & investigating their root cause.
• Strong knowledge of at least 1 scripting language, preferably either Python or Ansible.
• Experience with supporting and building multi environment, multi region platforms with cloud providers such as AWS/GCP and managing them through Infrastructure as Code and GitOps methodologies.
• Experience of working in a regulated financial services / banking organization.
• Software Development background.
• Familiar with the ITIL framework.
• Able to work proactively and provide regular updates to management and stakeholders.

We are a small company with a big mandate, so every person is essential to our success. What makes us interesting goes beyond our competitive salaries and great benefits. Our work environment is designed around quality outcomes, not output. We are different from other financial institutions in that we have a flatter and more transparent structure with accessible leadership.

Benefits include:

• Vacation/annual leave: 25 days in UK/Asia + 3 life days, 23 in US + 3 life days.
• Private medical and dental cover and life insurance.
• Generous pension contributions in the UK and Asia.
• Hybrid working – 2 days a week in office.
• Access to Discover – our learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Paid parental leave / Coaching and support services.
• Career development / LinkedIn Learning.
• Wellbeing / Mental health support.
• Diversity Council / Affinity groups (Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network, Pride Network, Parents & Caregivers Network, Sustainability Network).
• Social events.

Awards: The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 & 2024 / Big Company / The Sunday Times Awards; Third place in Britain’s Healthiest Workplace 2022 / Medium Company / Vitality Awards.